To provide a quartz crucible handing device that can turn a quartz crucible of a heavy weight and a large diameter in a limited space and receive it into the susceptor of a carbon crucible without using man power and free from the influence of contamination and the method for handling a quartz crucible.

The crucible-turning device and the crucible-receiving device are combined so that they may be arranged to the same position. Particularly, the quartz crucible is stably and smoothly rotated and placed in the susceptor 60 with the hand device 32 for holding and rotating the quartz crucible 50. The quartz crucible is placed on the pallet and is made liftable.